Movies and Music

Jeff Simmons asks: “Got a favorite music/film moment? That question was recently posted on a mailing list I inhabit, and provoked a

lot of responses. Heavy on the Kubrick (naturally), lots of pop songs, some classics (Casablanca, The Third Man), etc. How about you? What would be your favorite music/film moments, when the picture and the music merged into one powerful impression? Might be good blog fodder.”

Update: Speaking of a music/movie moment, how about this? One of the towering, transcendent moments in world cinema, and the music is, well, perfect:

Update 2: For Airplane68: Yes. The “Tiny Dancer” interlude from “Almost Famous.” Just wonderful, and the goosebumps for me start at “in 1974.”

OK. Well. Two come to mind, but this is the one I found on youtube. Nino Rota’s score is a huge part of this movie’s effectiveness. As for the specific moment — in this movie there are too many to count. There are several in this scene alone. Three I can think of offhand.

Two others came to mind. The return of the “Memory scene” music after the death of the boyfriend (on the ship) in “Queen Christina.” That’s probably number one for me. And a number of moments from Carl Davis’s silent film scores — in “The Student Prince” and “The Crowd” in particular.